[meteorite-list] Lunar diamonds (was Kalahari 008 and weathering)

From: Randy Korotev <korotev_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:35:50 -0500
Message-ID: <200704191735.l3JHZX019742_at_levee.wustl.edu>

No diamonds have been seen, to my knowledge. The Moon contains very
little carbon. Again, most of the carbon on the lunar surface comes
either from carbonaceous chondrites or is implanted by solar
wind. Nowhere is the C concentration high enough to make a diamond
by impact pressure.

Randy Korotev


At 12:57 19-04-07 Thursday, you wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:29:59 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >I don't really know "how they did it," but most brecciated lunar
> >meteorites do contain grains of metal - metal from asteroidal
> >meteorites that strike the Moon and that created the breccias in the
>
>This makes me think of something I've been wondering about-- have any micro
>diamond been found in lunar materisl (either meteoritic or
>Apollo)? Since some
>large, high-speed impacts on Earth create diamonds, I'd think that they would
>occur much more often on the moon, where every impact is a high-speed one.
Received on Thu 19 Apr 2007 01:35:50 PM PDT